MAGA Reps Suddenly Face an Existential Threat: Themselves

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : And Trump has even endorsed his 2024 re-election bid, saying Bost is doing a "fantastic job.
68% : Trump won it by over 40 points in 2020.
66% : Even with Trump out of office for three years, his influence has been constant.
58% : Republicans during the Trump era were largely measured by their support of Trump.
56% : "The Illinois congressman endorsed Donald Trump for president and voted with him 93 percent of the time during his administration.
53% : It's possible many could lose, or 2024 could be a better year for incumbents than 2022, when five lost primary challenges in non-redistricting related races.
53% : That fealty of Republicans to Trump further reinforced his power in the party, and further exacerbated the transformation of the party into his image.
51% : But Massie acknowledged that not all of his colleagues have cultivated as strong a brand that lets them survive getting crosswise with Trump.
47% : But Massie has been here before; in 2020, Trump backed his primary challenger.
44% : The high point of his campaign was Trump himself sharing Evans' post on the Truth Social platform of their mugshots side by side.
38% : His opponent is John McGuire, a Virginia state senator who has touted his support for Trump at every turn possible.
36% : Pointing to weak incumbent performances on March 5, Wasserman said, "the combined impact of those three outcomes will be a chilling effect on other Republican members who have been willing to speak out against Trump or vote for things that Trump doesn't like."While Trump often put Republicans in a difficult position when they had to defend his near-daily controversies, he offered many of them something they desperately desired: a cheat code to avoid primary challenges.

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